Wowhead's Artist's Corner and Giveaway - Straya Obscura

\r\r\r\r\r\rWelcome to a new article series that we at Wowhead are trying out! Here at Wowhead we love art, every and all forms of it - drawing, painting, sculpting, woodworking, metalworking, jewelry making, papercrafting, badge making, everything under the sun.\r\rIn an effort to share with you all what we love what our wonderful community does we are trying out what we like to call "Wowhead's Artist's Corner"! About once a month we will feature an artist and their craft. This article will feature a small blurb about themselves so that you can get to know them just a bit, show off their art, and learn more about what they do. And of course, there will be a special giveaway for one of their items! \r\r\rThis month we will be featuring:\r\r\r\rWe spoke with Straya and asked her to tell us a little about herself. \r\r"Hello! For those who do not know me, my name is Straya Obscura! I'm known within the fandom as "The Paper Craft Lady" and anybody who describes me as such is not wrong! I am fairly new to the Warcraft Fandom, and only joined the party a couple of years ago (special thanks goes out to Dusk for introducing me to this community) but it has been nothing short of amazing! I never realized such a wonderful, welcoming, and friendly community existed the in the gaming world!\r\rBackground story? I suppose everyone has one, huh? I went to college, following my passion for illustration and shot for a degree in illustration, but I dabbled in both the graphic design and game design areas, just trying to get a little taste of everything I liked. I spent nearly 3 years of my 4-year degree trying to figure out what I even wanted to do with my art until a singular project in a traditional illustration class gave me the "pop up book illustration idea". I went totally of the rails with the project, but it was received so well by my instructors and peers that I was encouraged to focus my portfolio around them. I spent the last year of my college focusing on improving the idea, pushing my work as far as I could. I was rewarded with the best in show at my graduation, and walked away knowing I had a cool idea and a unique take on something that has been done a million times. \r\rI spend the next few years juggling my life, 2 part-time jobs, my art and the conventions I go to to show my art. Early in 2016 me and Dusk met via one of our mutually favorite series. That brought me to Twitter and everything just exploded from there! During one of our often crazy and silly jam sessions through Discord she said "Hey you should make Warcraft paper crafts!" and once that train started rolling it didn't stop! The idea for the paper craft class crests was devised and that was the moment that I truly saw how welcoming this community can be! I almost couldn't keep up with all the love my paper crafts and myself received! I've since branched out into doing other games\/movies\/stories that I love, including Overwatch, and I am still continuing many Warcraft-related projects! Most recently I completed the Dragon Aspects, the illustrations for the Cloud Serpents, started the paper craft race crests, and have moved into wall-hanging (near life sized) Artifact weapons!"\r\r\rWhere you can find more about the artist\r\rTwitter of Straya Obscura\rSite & Shop\r\r\rStraya is known mostly for her wonderful paper crafts, spanning across many known universes of games and mythical creatures. Some of her best known paper crafts are inspired by the Blizzard Universes. Below you will find some examples of some of her favorite works! \r\r\r\r\r\r\rGiveaway\r\rNote: This giveaway has ended. The winner is roxburydude.\r\rThank you all for participating. We look forward to seeing you next month!\r\rNow YOU have a chance to win one of the many amazing things that this fantastic artist has made! Simply comment your thoughts about this article as well as which one of her paper crafts is your favorite! The giveaway winner will be chosen at random and have their choice of either Class Crest, Race Crest or Overwatch Crest or a $70 gift card to her shop! This giveaway is for US only due to shipping restrictions. This giveaway will run until June 4th at 11:59 PM PT. The winner will be contacted via their registered email address and have 14-days to reply or forfeit the prize. Good luck!

Commentaires

Commentaire de perculia

We're excited to launch another community article series, to go along with our monthly lore and cooking articles. We hope you like these types of articles!

Commentaire de SubjectV

on 2017-05-28T19:14:17-05:00

These are stunning! What a cool article idea. Looking forward to seeing more artists highlighted in the future. :)\r\rI can't choose a favorite - I'm stuck between the Naaru wall piece and the blue dragon. All of them are amazing, truthfully!

Commentaire de Carter94

on 2017-05-28T19:16:01-05:00

How awesome O have no idea what my favorite is but I sure enjoy ask the dragon ones. Anyways. These are all awesome.

Commentaire de Ashley

on 2017-05-28T19:17:59-05:00

Those aspects are gorgeous! Glad she was encouraged the keep on with this project, it's amazing!\r\rTough to choose a favorite, but I'd probably have to go with Alexstrasza... or the Mercy crest... or... so difficult!

Commentaire de Satyreh

on 2017-05-28T19:19:12-05:00

I think this new feature article series is a great idea! I absolutely adore Straya's racial crests. That night elf crest is devine!

Commentaire de Tombsv

on 2017-05-28T19:21:45-05:00

Always nice to see creative people make something amazing.\r\rMy personal favorite must be the Faerie Dragon.

Commentaire de N0083rP00F

on 2017-05-28T19:24:25-05:00

I find the art colourful, well composed and interesting. I especially like the crests.\rI am assuming LED lighting of some sort or is that something the buyer will have to supply?\r\rUnfortunately I have no idea how big they are or how thick they are or what process is used to make them.\rThe website lacks mentioning any other details like are they laser prints that are laminated onto card-stock, foam-core, layered from multiple pieces of archive quality papers or what exactly I am looking at.\rSometimes a picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes the picture needs a few dozen words.

Commentaire de Eiko2004

on 2017-05-28T19:30:30-05:00

I've followed her for awhile, her stuff is really awesome. I especially love the Ysera one.

Commentaire de sn0wtiger

on 2017-05-28T19:31:07-05:00

Holy ^&*!, this is endlessly beautiful. I can't even begin to put into words how absolutely gorgeous it is. I adore the vibrant colours and how clean they look. Really beautiful. :)\r\rThanks wowhead, I love this idea!

Commentaire de 3lizadeath

on 2017-05-28T19:35:58-05:00

Grats Straya! These are beautiful. I absolutely adore her work, specifically the busts that hang on the wall. She has one type (Wall Hanger, not pictured here though) that I would kill to have an Invincible model done for that would include wings and front feet. I purchased one for my boyfriend for a previous anniversary or birthday. Her work is top notch. I'd love to have one of my own.

Commentaire de Aralnda

on 2017-05-28T19:40:51-05:00

Wow I didn't know about her. I would love a feature article like this! Can we do wow you tubers as well? I know most are known but would still be a good highlight! I love learning about new people and ideas. \r\rAs for the art pieces. The ones that's particularly stood out because of the colorful news of them was the feindrwgon and malygos (I think, the blue one) their color really popped at me! Plus I love fei dragons!

Commentaire de aldgod

on 2017-05-28T19:40:58-05:00

I got to say, Love the class crest with the lighting.

Commentaire de Senzyri

on 2017-05-28T19:41:01-05:00

I love the new artist spotlight idea! So excited to see more! I've been following Straya for a while and she definitely deserves the spotlight.\rAs for my favorite... I really love the Naaru. It's so hard to choose though!

Commentaire de Purgatorywolf

on 2017-05-28T19:45:02-05:00

I think this is a pretty interesting idea. There are always such talented artists featured in some of the contests, so it's pretty cool to see more of their works, and have a chance are winning something done by them! I really enjoy her dragon head wall mounts, my son has a paper mache one on his wall from a pinata :)

Commentaire de Whaleman85

on 2017-05-28T19:45:30-05:00

Love the idea (about time), love the article and the art work. Any of the dragons are my favorite. They are amazing!

Commentaire de Tofke

on 2017-05-28T19:52:09-05:00

Great idea for an article. I'd love to see what's out there even non wow gaming art.\rPity there wasn't an Undead Crest or that would have been my favourite. From the ones featuring on the site I'd have to go with Deathwing, it's gorgeous.\r\rKeep them coming!

Commentaire de YukiSorrelwood

on 2017-05-28T20:02:10-05:00

I really like the Horde and Warrior crests, great wall pieces.

Commentaire de PandaAlissca

on 2017-05-28T20:03:17-05:00

I currently own two of her WoW class crests already and am so in love with them. The design and craftsmanship is just so stunning and when ever we have guests they always get commented about and complimented!~\rBeen following her for a while now and always so excited to see what she's currently working on, not to mention she's always been an absolute sweetheart to talk to. \rAmazing work by an even more amazing person!~\rWould absolutely recommend you get something from her if you can.

Commentaire de AutumnLily

on 2017-05-28T20:11:44-05:00

Oh my I love these so much! It's so hard to pick just one. I do love the dragon ones.

Commentaire de Ins0mn3sia

on 2017-05-28T20:14:06-05:00

Great article idea, so much art being made, hell..a lot of it makes it to reddit. I'm sure much more of it goes unnoticed. It's good to see it showcased all in one place, where site visitors can see it!\r\rLove the Zenyatta crest, got the whole harmony and balance down, the Fey Dragon even, I'm sure the getting the colours to flow just right would be quite the task, done it justice in my book.\r\rHell, it gives me one more artist to follow :)